Faced with the contingency by the coronavirus, the bachelor’s admission exam for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (ONE) will be applied at the University Olympic Stadium.
The University announced that the test will be applied on Wednesday, August 19 at the University Olympic Stadium, home of the Los Angeles soccer team. Pumas.
The last time a similar event occurred was 33 years ago, since, from 1969 to 1987, the entrance exams for the National Preparatory School, the College of Sciences and Humanities, as well as the Bachelor’s degree they were applied in the Azteca Stadium.
At that time, according to an article in the investigator Alexandro Satori published in the magazine of the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, there were 98,500 students who were looking for a space at the University of the Nation.
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In the exams applied by UNAM in 2019, 153 thousand 776 applicants for the first round and 70 thousand 80 applicants for the second, that is, 223 thousand 856 young people competed to obtain a space in one of the more than 129 Degree programs in school mode, or in the open and distance university system.
In a count you made THE UNIVERSAL On both occasions, it was reported that only 15,458 of them, that is, 10% of the applicants, obtained the necessary scores to enter the institution in the first exam; However, there was only room for 14,68. In the second round, 6,137 students entered, 8% of whom took the exam. In total, the UNAM only has the capacity to admit 9.6% of the young people who present themselves.
The institution asked the young people who will take their exam to enter one of its degrees, to go alone to the headquarters that corresponds to them. They must be presented with mask and, if possible, also with a mask.
“The country is mainly in orange traffic light, which indicates that there is a significant risk of contagion by coronavirus, so it is necessary to avoid the repetition of the agglomerations of the companions ”, he asked.
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